In China, 1,500 kg of drugs were publicly destroyed
Category: Video reporting, PEGI 0+
Today, 04:30
The event was timed to coincide with the 186th anniversary of a famous historical event that took place during the Qing Dynasty.
A large-scale public event took place in Hainan Province. About 1.6 tons of heroin, methamphetamine, ketamine and new psychoactive substances confiscated by the courts in recent years were burned in a furnace at a power plant.
The event was timed to coincide with the 186th anniversary of the start of the anti-drug campaign in China. On June 3, 1839, official Lin Zexu ordered the destruction of about a thousand tons of opium confiscated from foreign traders in Guangdong Province. This event became a symbol of the beginning of resistance to opium addiction in the country.
